The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-10-27

AhS ooSoloi cuHilneHceu WIN singing ana
prayer, after which Rev. w. f. Slocom read
the report on the educational work in the
South, which is as follows:
Report on Educational Work In the
South.
Your committee to which the report of the ex-
ecutive committee on educational work in the
South was referred would express at the outset
their profound gratitude for the success that has
followed the efforts that have been put forth in
thls large and Important department of the work
of the American Missionary Association.
While they deplore with all those who have the
interests OF this work at heart, the political at
tempts TO limit the usefulness of the association
that has grown out OF unworthy partisan preju-
dices, yet they perceive with thankfulness that
there is an element growing stronger every year at
the south that appreciates the place, the 1mpor-
lance and the value OF these schools Notably is
tnls SHOWN IN Mississippi where the State apprO-
prlatlon for the Tougaloo University was the on
ly one not reduced. They would speak with ap-
preclatloh OF the Christian spirit that nfuses all
these schools, and the deeply religious character
that Is given to the WORK, and of the strong per-
sonal influences which are brought to bear upon
The students.
Your committee feels thar the time has come to
push with greatest yigor a work that shall meet
The demand for teachers in the public schools of
the South, and to avail ourselves of the opportu-
nlty To reach the children and the homes Of col
ored people through these. That every effort
needs 70 be put forth to send out these teachers
established IN Christian ethics and feeling that
the noraiieS OF life are the basis of all true edu-
cation.
Great pleasure is taken in the advance that is
made each year in the matter of industrial and ag-
ricultural training; and every effort which tends
70 transform ms people into an intelligent, up
flsht, Snflstlah yeomanry will be a pro-
found blessing. Our constant aim shonld
be to establish the true dignity of labor and the
neatniui oeslIe TO possess property and an intel
Igehce that secures the best condition as proper
W holders. Your committee is of the opinion that
Inc opportunity for good through these schools
was never larger than at present. and that the
nteu OF enlargement IN MANY ia imnaratiVa
also that he time has come TO push the work of
special endowment for the larger institutions
tnat tney may become Independent of any finan-
clal pressure and may be put upon permanent
basis. And therefore of the three Alternatives
sugge SIZED by the claims of the work at present
when they suggest IN their report, can endorse
one only, and do therefore most heartily recon-
mend that instead Of sacrificing the character of
Inc work, instead OF reducing the amount of work
done the Association shall have more money
Following the report DIR. Slocum made re-
marks, speaking first of the wide difference
between the social states of the North and
South, especially as shown since the war.
The question must be dealt with ethnically !;
we must remember that we are dealing with
a race constantly growing larger. WHY
should not this race in the future have its
great name among philosophers, poets and
statesmenp The South has changed much
IN It's opinion in recent years. They see
that the common school has come to stay
Education Is seen to be essential to the
permanence of free institutions. The speak
er continued with statistics bearing upon
this question.
The State of Alabama" said he. ''has
1O4, $50 colored pupils enrolled in her public
schools She pays an average of $2597 per
month 10 her nearly 1000 colored teachers
ana expends all together $19S, 221 upon these
colored schools. Georgia has 40 per cent. of
her negro school population enrolled, that
Is. il9,24S. In 1871 she had 6,664 in all pub
nc and private colored schools. Her teach
ers OF this race now number 2,272. 1880
colored children are enrolled in Louisiana
with 672 negro teachers who are paid S23 90
per month upon the average. Mississippi
hud last year 154, 430 colored scholars. She
employs 3,l24 colored teachers who receive
an average OF S2S.7 per month. North Car
DINA enrolled in 1856 ,562 colOred pupils /:
employs 2Ol6 teachers of the same race, whom
she pays about the same as white teachers
$3.50 per month. The colored school non.
ulatlon OF Tennessee numbers I5S,45O of
whom 64,624 are enrolled in her 1868 common
schools, which are taught by 1861 teachers of
the same nationality. A gentleman from
the South voluntarily adds we should do
our colored teachers an Injustice not to
speak OF them. Most of then are earnest
t ts workers, DONG all In their power for
their race. Turning now to Texas, we find
mat she has nearly doubled her enrolled
colered pupils in three years who
now number 62,0I0 with 1886 licensed colored
teachers, whose stipend is al average of
Ssl.1S per month. Virginia has ia out
colored teachers who receive S2865 per
month. That is, in eight representative
states there are 100000 cOlored pupils en-
rolled in colored schools. There are over
l5,0OO colored teachers. There were en-
ployed last year over $1,000 colored teachers
states" o'e"'
The speaker then went on to say that one
great work OF this association is to provide
teachers properly lifted for this work. to car
~ on this great and benefcent work.
Rev. +. +. Emerson followed in an address
on the great problem, the education of the
colored race.
Mr.. r, M. Crosthwait, graduate of Fisk
University, eolored man, addressed the as
ISOLATION on the education of his race in
Tennessee. He apologized for his wearied
appearance, because he was Just from the
prohibition campaign in Tennessee. The
enterprise of the cOlOred race in education
acts as spur to the white race. The evil
and corrupt ideas of the colored people on
religion and morality are passing away, and
a better spirit and more Intelligent concep-
tion of Christian obligation and life are ris-
ing among them.
Rev Mr.. Van Horne Of Newport. R. L.,
spoke upon the same subject. Mr. Van
Horne was teacher in Charleston, S. c..
and related some of his experiences while in
the South, and his pleasure in working
among his white brethren at the North. He
spoke of the obstacles to the education and
elevation of the colored people 1t is only
within few, years that the colleges of the
North have been open to colored students.
Dartmouth alone has ever been open to them
and first graduated colored students. He
closed with an eloquent appeal for right and
Justice to his race, and looked confidently fer
that time when the two races shall walk har-
monlously together in the common bond of
religious faith and Christian work.
Inc congregation sung a hymn, after
which Rev. II. j. Patrick read the report on
mountain work:
Report on Mountain Work.
The committee on SO much of the Annual Report